65 terrorists killed in NWA, Khyber Agency

MIRANSHAH/RAWALPINDI: The security forces claimed to have killed 65 militants in air strikes in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA) and the Khyber tribal area on Monday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that as many as 50 militants were killed in precise air strikes in the Shawal and Gharlamai areas of North Waziristan Agency on Monday. It said the fighter jets pounded sanctuaries of the militants in the remote mountainous Shawal Valley near the Afghan border. It added that infrastructure of terrorists, including an ammunition depot, were destroyed in the air strikes.
The military sources said that most of the militants, after their expulsion from residential areas such as Mir Ali and Miranshah, had shifted to the remote and mountainous Shawal Valley.
Meanwhile, the ISPR said that at least 15 terrorists were killed in precise aerial strikes in the Rajgal area which is close to the Pak-Afghan border in the Khyber Agency.
It said reports also indicated that two suicide bombers were among the killed terrorists.
Agencies add: Two intelligence officials, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak on the record, said that Monday’s air strikes took place at 10:00am in the Zoi Nari, Lataka, Mizer Madakhel and Shawal areas of North Waziristan Agency.
One official said that the dead included some foreigners who were involved in the militant attacks across the country.
The death toll of the militants killed in two days has reached 105. The military had claimed killing 40 militants in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.
The Pakistan Army launched a major offensive in June last year and security officials say over 2,500 militants have so far been killed and over 90 percent of the areas cleared of the militants.